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Legislative Assembly","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/issued":[{"value":"2016","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"[1943]","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/aggregatedCHO":[{"value":"https:\/\/oc2-uat.library.ubc.ca\/collections\/bcsessional\/items\/1.0314292\/source.json","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/format":[{"value":"application\/pdf","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2009\/08\/skos-reference\/skos.html#note":[{"value":" PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nEBPOKT\nOF THE\nDEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND\nINDUSTRY\nFOR THE TEAR ENDED MARCH .1st\n1942\nPRINTED BY\nAUTHORITY OF TUB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.\nVICTORIA, B.C. :\nPrinted by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to tbe King's Most Excellent Majesty.\n1942. To His Honour W. C. Woodward,\nLieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia.\nMay it please Your Honour :\nI beg to submit herewith the Report of the Department of Trade and Industry for\nthe year ended March 31st, 1942.\nHERBERT ANSCOMB,\nMinister of Trade and Industry.\nDepartment of Trade and Industry,\nOffice of the Minister,\nVictoria, British Columbia.\nHonourable Herbert Anscomb,\nMinister of Trade and Industry, Victoria, B.C.\nSir,\u2014I have the honour to submit herewith the Report of the Department of Trade\nand Industry for the year ended March 31st, 1942.\nI have the honour to be,\n. Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\nEDWIN G. ROWEBOTTOM,\nDeputy Minister of Trade and Industry. Report of the Department of Trade and Industry\nfor the Year ended March 31st, 1942\nThe period covered by this report is one of general expansion, substantial gains\nbeing recorded in every line of activity, with the sole exception of Coast shipping,\nwhere there was a falling off in ship loadings. Employment soared to a new peak, the\nfigure for October, 1941, being 110,771 as against the previous record of 96,324 in\nSeptember, 1940.\nIn the fiscal year 1941-42 all the basic industries did exceptionally well, and the\nsecondary industries, and notably ship-building, more than maintained the improvement\nshown in 1940-41. Average weekly wages were substantially increased in practically\nall trades, war industries naturally being most affected. With no marked increase in\nthe average weekly working-hours, the average weekly wage for male employees was\nthe highest since the peak year of 1920, and for women workers the highest on record.\nLogging and lumbering continued to occupy the leading place, followed by contracting, food products, metal-mining, metal trades, and street-railways, a condition\nwhich reflects the situation very graphically. There is no doubt that British Columbia's\nwar effort was seriously handicapped by the housing situation, but the fact that contracting has advanced to second place among the leading industries shows clearly that\nserious efforts are being made to remove that disability. With food products in third\nplace, the facilities of the box factories have been taxed to the utmost and most of them\nhave been obliged to expand their plants, not only for the increased local demand but to\ntake care of the British market, which can no longer obtain supplies from Scandinavian\nsources.\nWhile the year under review was not entirely free from labour disputes, it is gratifying to know that the actual time-loss was the lowest on record; nor have accidents\nincreased to any really notable extent, despite the great number of inexperienced\nworkers which industry has been obliged to employ.\nIn British Columbia, as elsewhere, women and girls are playing an admirable part\nin the war effort, and are displaying an altogether remarkable adaptability and a tireless energy in the interests of the war effort which is beyond praise.\nWith these preliminary remarks, this, report goes on to discuss the various phases\nand to cover the work of the several bureaus in detail.\nReference was made in last year's report to the work of our Trade Representative\nat Ottawa. This work is still being vigorously carried on, and the results continue to\nbe eminently satisfactory.\nTRADE REPRESENTATIVE AT OTTAWA.\nSince October, 1939, the Bureau of Industrial and Trade Extension has maintained\ncontinuously its director, Mr. W. Lloyd Craig, as its special representative at Ottawa.\nMr. Craig has continued to keep close contacts with the Department of Munitions\nand Supply, heads of the navy, army, and air force, members of the British and other\nmissions, foreign legations and various departments of the Dominion Government,\ntogether with war-time manufacturing firms and distributing firms dealing in various\ncommodities for civilian use.\nThe results of the director's activities continue to be extremely gratifying. The\nvolume of business placed in British Columbia as a consequence of his work has\nreached substantial figures. It is regrettable that it is not possible to name the exact\namount of business in dollars and cents, for some months ago the Dominion Government, at the request of the British and United States Governments, discontinued the\npublishing of lists of contracts placed in Canada.\nBritish Columbia is being recognized to an ever-increasing extent as being capable\nof production on a scale not hitherto known in our Province. Articles manufactured in\nBritish Columbia continue to be supplied in large quantities to Eastern Canadian\npoints, the United Kingdom and many other places within the Empire, and including\ncertain points in the United States. M 4 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThe Department is now giving very, careful attention and consideration to the\npost-war trade development of the Province. To this end Mr. Craig in his present\nwork at Ottawa has been instructed to devote any time that may be necessary to this\nfeature of our problem.\nIn suggesting this phase of Mr. Craig's work the Department is cognizant of the\ntremendous problem to be faced by industry when the present abnormal conditions are\nreplaced by a sudden or even gradual readjustment to peace-time conditions.\nThe maintenance of this office at Ottawa is thoroughly appreciated by British\nColumbia manufacturers. This is evidenced by the large numbers of letters of appreciation and complimentary statements regarding the services being rendered.\nDuring the past two years many small establishments in the Province have expanded into large factories. As a result of this, employment in the Province has\nimproved to a point probably not experienced for many years. The 1941 British\nColumbia revised Trade Index was received very favourably and drew many highly\ncomplimentary remarks. This Index was distributed from Ottawa to all purchasing\nagents in the Dominion Government and the Department of Munitions and Supply;\nthe army, the navy, and air force: various Government controlled and operated companies; purchasing agents of Canadian railways, steamship companies, ship-builders,\nbanks, insurance companies; purchasing agents of the large industrial organizations\nin Eastern Canada; and the large department stores, aircraft manufacturing plants,\nand all foreign legations. The effect and usefulness of this Index has been exemplified\non numerous occasions.\nTIMBER TRADE EXTENSION WORK ABROAD.\nThe Department again made a grant of $20,000 to the Trade Extension Bureau of\nthe British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Manufacturers' Association. Since 1935\nthe following grants have been made to the Trade Extension Bureau:\u2014\nFiscal year.\n1935-36 '. .' . $50,000.00\n1936-37 : 50,000.00\n1937-38 50,000.00\n1938-39 : : 40,000.00\n1939-40-..J 40,000.00\n1940-41 , -'. 20,000.00\n1941-42 20,000.00\nSubsequent to date of report, 1942-43 ... 10,000.00\nThe war of necessity forced the Trade Extension Bureau to moderate many of its\ntrade promotion activities in the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and Eastern\nCanada. The steps taken leading to a reduction in trade extension work activities of\nthe Bureau were founded on sound judgment and in the best interests of economy and\ngood business practice.\nThe Department of Trade and Industry being vitally interested in the activities of\nthe Trade Extension Bureau of the British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Manufacturers' Association is appreciative of the splendid results achieved in markets explored\nby the Bureau during the past few years, and is gratified to know that the trade extension work of the Bureau will be resumed on a greater scale than heretofore when the\npresent conflict ceases.\nOn behalf of the lumber industry of the Province we wish to pay tribute to Mr.\nA. S. Nicholson, the Timber Controller for Canada; his Deputy, Major L. R. Andrews;\nand Mr. D. D. Rosenberry, Assistant Controller of Western operations, for their\nco-operative efforts.\nUnited Kingdom.\nAs trade extension activities in the United Kingdom were practically brought to a\nstandstill through the war, it was decided to temporarily close the London office and\ndispense with the services of Mr. Harward Craig, who so ably managed the office for\nthe past year. Australia.\nAt the request of the Australian Government the Trade Extension Bureau loaned\nthe services of its Timber Commissioner, Mr. R. E. Smith, to the Australian Timber\nController. The trade extension office was therefore temporarily closed. This Department congratulates Mr. Smith upon his appointment and is cognizant of the fact that\nthe right man is in the right place.\nSouth Africa.\nBecause of war conditions, Mr. W. Johnson, the Bureau's representative in South\nAfrica, resigned to accept a position with one of the largest and best supporters of\nBritish Columbia lumber in South Africa. The Bureau, however, was successful in\npartially retaining the services of Mr. Johnson, who will maintain close contact with\nthe trade and report as to conditions and prospects regularly.\nCanada.\nAs war conditions had disrupted the regular building trade in Canada and in view\nof the fact that the greater part of the lumber now being used was more or less directly\nor indirectly under the jurisdiction of the Timber Controller, who was specifying hemlock to the greatest extent possible, it was regretfully decided to dispense with Mr. J. C.\nBerto's services in Eastern Canada, where he had done much valuable work on behalf\nof the lumber industry of this Province.\nThe Trade Extension Bureau is determined to maintain their overseas Trade\nCommissioners' services upon cessation of hostilities. They have put years of effort\nand many thousands of dollars in this worth-while work. Services are still being rendered and the machinery is being maintained, and when the war ceases we are certain\nthat their post-war trade extension activities will be resumed on a much greater scale.\nLOANS AND GUARANTEES.\n(\" Department of Industries Act, 1919.\")\nFollowing is a statement covering loans and guarantees outstanding under the\n\" Department of Industries Act, 1919.\" Every effort is being made to liquidate these\naccounts as soon as possible and it is expected that several substantial payments will be\nreceived in the near future:\u2014\nStatement of Loans and Guarantees outstanding, March 31st, 1942.\nLoans. _, . . , T . ___.\nPrincipal. Interest.\nCharles Cormack (Acme Cabinet Works)...... $1,678.47 $6.38\nB.C. Livestock Exchange 25,000.00 685.94\nCanadian Western Woodworks 9,799.70 1,937.19\nGordon Campbell Investment Co., Ltd 27,920.23 17.79\nFort St. John Flour Mill 17,449.41 6,081.29\nT. H. Waters & Company 15,407.16 1,908.63\nGuarantees.\nGray's Lumber Mills, Ltd $2,696.76\nBig Bend Cedar Pole Co., Ltd. (White Pine Lumber Co.,\nLtd.) 9,925.53\n(Subsequent to date of report the Fort St. John Flour Mill has been sold to a\nreliable purchaser for the sum of $9,000, substantial cash payment, balance on satisfactory deferred instalments.)\nREPORT OF THE BUREAU OF INDUSTRIAL AND\nTRADE EXTENSION.\nThe Trade Commissioner has again co-operated closely with Federal and Provincial Departments and with commercial and other organizations in the Province\ntowards increased use of existing facilities and furtherance of new contacts for industrial and trade extension. M 6 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nCO-OPERATIVE CONTACTS.\nThe restricted sphere of activities of the Trade Commissioners Overseas, due to\nwar conditions, has been reflected in the Provincial Department policies and has\nresulted in closer collaboration with Ottawa, with the Trade Commissioners on special\nduties there, and in contemplation of the fact that overseas market machinery must be\ncompletely reconstructed at the close of hostilities.\nHowever, producers and exporters in the Province have again maintained close\nco-operation with the Bureau, and the Federal Trade Commissioner Service Overseas\nhas continued even in war-time to use it as a clearing-house for problems affecting\nexporters in British Columbia.\n\u2022 Assistance has been given to visiting Trade Commissioners on tour, including the\nreturning Commercial Attache from Tokyo, Japan; the Trade Commissioner from\nShanghai; the Trade Commissioner from New York; the Trade Commissioner from\nSydney, Australia; and the Trade Commissioner from Lima, Peru, on transfer to a\nnew office in Chile.\nThe Bureau has during the year been associated with a number of market programmes of interest to other Provincial Departments at Victoria, and has attempted\nto co-ordinate these efforts, to assist in placing responsibility for constructive effort\naffecting distribution of the product, linking such distribution with the work of the\nmany war-time controls involved, through regional administration and direction at\nOttawa.\nThe Departments of Trade and Commerce, Ottawa; Munitions and Supply;\nFisheries; and Agriculture have increasingly used the services of the Bureau at\nVictoria in special endeavours where a clearing-house is useful (noted elsewhere in\nthe report) in approaches on market problems, technical surveys, claim adjustments,\nand problems of sales promotion, especially those affected by emergency conditions.\nNEW INDUSTRIES.\nWithin the limits imposed by war conditions, the Bureau has again assisted in\ndevelopment and extension programmes, helping in the location of plant-sites, in the\nsupply of raw material, factory equipment, labour personnel, transportation problems,\nand taxation.\nThe flow of European capital and the application of new methods introduced by\nthose who provided this capital were noted in the reports of the last two years. The\nassistance given by the Bureau in the earlier stages of this special development has\nbeen extended. The extension of these industries themselves, with particular reference\nto war production, has been a feature of industrial development in the Province during\nthe year.\nResults on branch factory work cannot be expected under emergency conditions,\nbut the Bureau in its surveys has become increasingly concerned with the importance\nof maintaining key contacts, and is preparing the ground for the inevitable replacement of war-time industries by new branch establishment and by new types of industrial production.\nThe Federal Control on war-time construction and extension has consistently used\nthe services of the Bureau in its own surveys where plant extension or additions have\nbeen warranted because of war conditions.\nSUMMARY REVIEW OF TRADE EXTENSION EFFORTS.\nWhen the Department was first formed it was felt that industrial effort in the\nestablishment of new .industries and the assistance to existing ones must be supplemented by active trade promotion work, with particular reference to export possibilities ; that this would involve constructive production or marketing service on a wide\nvariety of produce, as well as assistance to promotion programmes in specific cases.\nThe Department was able to report last year that this expectation had been\nrealized, and its importance had been emphasized by war conditions.\nFor the year now under review, as in previous years, the main types of trade\nextension effort have fallen under definite headings:\u2014 DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. M 7\n(1.) Contact with foreign markets through co-operation with the Federal\nTrade Commissioners Overseas.\n(2.) Special export surveys in co-operation with Ottawa or other Government departments.\n(3.) Independent export surveys arising from war conditions:\n(a.) Loss of existing markets;\n(b.) Opportunities to replace exports from Germany;\n(c.) Survey of new markets opened by disruption of Scandinavian\nor other sources of supply.\n(4.) Increased war-time co-operation with agricultural interests for special\nmarketing problems.\n(5.) Assistance in mobilization of war industries of the Province.\n(6.) Co-operation for market problems with the committee for general industrial survey of the Province.\n(7.) Assistance in Timber Trade Extension.\n(8.) Specialized assistance to unorganized producing and exporting groups.\nPARTICULARS OF TRADE EXTENSION EFFORTS.\nTimber Trade Extension.\nA special section of the report deals with Timber Trade Extension.\nSurveys by Commodities.\nAt the request of contacts overseas and of exporters and manufacturers in the\nProvince, the Bureau investigated a great number of products and by-products, involving a full range of products which can ordinarily be exported from the Province.\nThe scope of the work indicated under this heading was again restricted by conditions\nof transport and war-time movement.\nContacts for Overseas Co-operation.\nIn addition to the relations established and maintained with Trade Commissioners,\nthe Bureau continued to receive the full co-operation of the Agent-General in London,\nwho has been able to continue his effective liaison work for the Province in spite of\nmost difficult conditions. Direct and effective contacts have also been maintained with\nthe British Trade Commissioner in Vancouver and the foreign Consuls in the Province.\nSpecial Investigations.\nConsiderable work under this heading has again been undertaken, and it is related\nto the general scope of trade extension work of the Bureau. Cited may be the Bureau's\nassistance in problems of transportation and rates, representation on outside committees relating to industrial endeavour and trade expansion, assistance given to\ninvestigation of factory conditions affecting output, assistance extended in award to\nBritish Columbia manufacturers on public contracts, and the promotion and sales of\nBritish Columbia produce to which special mention is again made in the report.\nSPECIAL EXPORT ENDEAVOUR.\nExtending the contacts and machinery evolved last year, the Bureau has again\nbeen closely associated with the war-time export movement of foodstuffs from the Province, including eggs, fruit, fisheries products, and canned milk\u2014under contract to the\nMinistry of Food in the United Kingdom, in co-operation with the Federal and Provincial Departments of Agriculture, and with the special board set up at Ottawa to act\nas collecting and purchasing agents for the material.\nIn particular the Bureau has again assisted in the matter of fruit-pulp contracts\nfor the United Kingdom.\nIt was actively engaged in shipping approximately 16,000 barrels or 3,000 net tons\nof strawberries in S02 solution, raspberries in SOL, solution, greengage-pulp, blackcurrant pulp, and prune-pulp in the 1941 season. These shipments were supplied from\nall parts of the Province, and the extension of the same machinery has been authorized\nfor the year 1942 in respect to movement from the Province. M 8 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThe Trade Commissioner acts as agent of the Special Products Board, Ottawa, who\nare the purchasing agents of the British Ministry of Food in England. All negotiations, fruit collection, processing contracts, financing, ocean space allotment, and actual\nshipment are centred in the department at Victoria.\nFrom this has evolved a direct and effective basis of co-operation with the British\nMinistry of War Transport, with the shipping companies, the banks, the Canned Foods\nAssociation of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, and the suppliers themselves,\nall of whom turn to the Bureau as a clearing-house for direction and consolidated\narrangements.\nThe Bureau is also acting as special representative in the movement of other vital\nwar materials\u2014it now surveys and controls the entire export movement of and trading\nin peat-moss of the Province where supplies are required for defence purposes, and\nover a million bales are expected to move to the United States as a result of organization completed in the first three months of the calendar year.\nOTHER SPECIAL ENDEAVOURS IN WAR-TIME DISTRIBUTION.\nIn many other matters the Bureau is called upon by Ottawa to act as a clearinghouse for other war-time organizations and control of shipping space and war-time\nexport movement. This involves direct and effective contact with the priorities committee and other committees at Ottawa and with shipping contacts at Victoria and\nVancouver.\nElsewhere in this report under the notes on the work of the Trade Representative\nat Ottawa, mention has been made of the mobilization of industry for war purposes in\nthe Province. The Bureau has been actively co-operating in this connection by representation on war contracts committees, and by the maintenance of contacts with visiting\nor resident representatives of the various board and control units established at Ottawa.\nIt has assisted in special surveys, and the machinery set up has been placed at the\ndisposal of the Federal authorities and has been used constructively by them in the\ninterests of the Province.\nBRITISH COLUMBIA PRODUCTS.\nAgain mention should be made of the co-operation extended to the British Columbia\nProducts Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade, and to the British Columbia Division of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, and with other organizations concerned in the increased sale of British Columbia products. During the year under\nreview the Department again assisted in advertising campaigns, and co-operated closely\nwith all bodies concerned with the particular problems of the British Columbia manufacturer and producer.\nREPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ECONOMICS AND\nSTATISTICS.\nThe Bureau, as a fact-finding and advisory body, has been working under increased\npressure during the past fiscal year. War conditions have brought new projects into\nbeing, forced the suspension of peace-time studies, and dislocated the personnel. The\nessential statistical services, largely performed for other Provincial departments as\nwell as for the Department of Trade and Industry, have been maintained but not without difficulty. All agreements or working arrangements relating to the collection,\nco-ordination, and publication of statistics existing between this Bureau and the\nDominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa; the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Ottawa;\nas well as the Provincial Departments of Mines, Labour, and Provincial Secretary, have\nbeen satisfactorily executed. A number of important studies have been inaugurated\nwhile others have been completed in the Research Division. A full description of these\nresearch projects, together with an account of the statistical services performed, has\nbeen provided under the appropriate divisions which follow.*\n* A description of the Bureau of Economics and Statistics, showing the internal organization, will be found in\nthe 1939 Report of the Department of Trade and Industry. DEPARTMENT OP TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nM 9\nREVIEW OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nUnder the impetus of war-time demand, business activity in British Columbia\nduring 1941 exceeded the relatively high levels of 1940. If this trend continues, it is\nevident that the Province will shortly experience \" full employment.\" Production in\nthe basic industries reached an estimated net value of $343,000,000 in 1941* compared\nwith $302,762,441 in 1940.f Improvement was largely due to increased production and\nhigher values in the forest, fishery, and manufacturing industries. Salaries and wages\npaid to employees in the leading industries have been estimated at $239,525,459 in\n1941, an increase of at least $51,000,000 over the estimated 1940 gross pay-roll of\n$188,325,7664 Merchandising, both wholesale and retail, reflected the results of a\nrising price-level and increased consuming power. Bank debits, reflecting the volume\nof commercial payments, and, as such, a useful guide to the tempo of business activity,\nwere reported to have shown a 13.6-per-cent. increase in 1941 over 1940. Employment\nmeasured by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics' monthly index, showed an improvement\nof 19.7 per cent, in the same period. A brief glimpse of other business characteristics\nduring 1941 may be seen from Table 1.\nTable 1.\u2014Economic Activity in British Columbia, 1941, compared ivith 1940.\nUnit.\n1941.\n1940.\nPercentage\nIncrease ( +) or\nDecrease (\u2014 ).\nMining\u2014\nOz.\n* 1\n$ 1\nI J\nLong ton\n$\nM.B.M.\nTon\n$\nCase\n?\nBox\nBox\nBox\nCwt.\nM. ft.\nSquare\n1935-39 = 100\n1935-39=100\n1935-39=100\n$\n000 gal.\nTon\n000 k.w.h.\n000 $\n78,479,719 '\n614,801\n40,231,518\n1,802,353\n119,920,000\n3,522,750\n351,241\n31,732,037\n2,295,433*\n58,577,539\n3,940,797\n2,536,599\n1,404,198\n081,142\n953,933\n3,205,465\n155.0\n134.8\n' 137.2\n10,653,698\n70,995\n9,139,480\n2,407,480\n29,361\n75,701,155\n622,483\n39,498,623\n1,667,827\n102,804,000\n3,693,155\n330,572\n21,719,167\n1,467,216\n52,317,121\n4,925,987\n3,961,647\n964,340\n462,433\n948,830\n2,729,699\n126.1\n116.5\n121.6\n10,108,463\n65,199\n7,592,881\n2,095,625\n26,730\n+ 3.67\n\u2014 1.23\nCopper production! _ \t\n- Lead production1...-... \u2014 \t\n+ 1.86\n+ 8.07\nForestry\u2014\nTotal value of production2 .\n+ 16.65\n\u2014 4.61\n+ 6.25\nFisheries\u2014\n+ 38.18\n+ 56.45\nAgriculture\u2014\nTotal value of production4 _\nApples\u2014\n+ 11.9.7\n\u2014 20.00\n\u2014 35.93\n+ 45.61\nExternal Trade\u2014\n+ 47.30\nExports of planks and boards, Douglas firG\n+ 0.54\n+ 17.43\nInternal Trade\u2014\n+ 22.92'\nIndex of retail sales0\u2014'\n+ 15.71\n+ 12.83\n+ 5.39\n+ 8.89\nRailway freight loaded in B.C.0 \t\n+ 20.37\n+ 14.88.\nSales of life insurance0.. \t\n+ 9.84\n1 British Columbia Department of Mines.\n- British Columbia Department of Lands, Forest Branch.\n:;; British Columbia Department of Fisheries.\nI British Columbia Department of Agriculture.\n5 British Columbia Tree Fruit Board.\nII Dominion Bureau of Statistics.\n7 Bureau of Economics and Statistics.\n* Preliminary estimate by the Bu:eau of Economics and Statistics.\nf Dominion Bureau of Statistics.\n% British Columbia Department of Labour. M 10\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nTable 1.\u2014Economic Activity in British Columbia, 1941, compared with 1940\n\u25a0\u2014Continued.\nUnit.\n1941.\n1940.\nPercentage\nIncrease ( + ) or\nDecrease ( \u2014 ).\nConstruction\u2014\n000 $\n000 $\nNo.\n$\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926 = 100\n1926 = 100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926 = 100\n1926 = 100\n14,509\n2,427,200\n92,032\n12,769,000\n135.6\n164.9\n268.5\n132.1\n146.2\n173.3\n169.2\n114.3\n107.1\n102.8\n117.6\n99.7\n142.1\n159.6\n11,929\n2,137,200\n92,230\n11,110,000\n113.3\n129.1\n129.3\n108.7\n117.8\n143.6\n152.2\n110.4\n91.9\n74.8\n112.1\n93.4\n127.9\n142.9\n+ 21.63\n+ 13.57\n0.21\nFinance\u2014\nTourist Trade\u2014\nEstimated expenditure of United States tourists in British Columbia7 \t\nEmployment6\u2014\n+ 14.93\n+ 19.68\n+ 27,73\n+ 107.66 .\n+ 21.53\n+ 24.11\n+ 20.68\n+ 11.17\n+ 3.53\n+ 16.54\n+ 37.43\n+ 4.91\n+ 6.75\n+ 11.10\n+ 11.69\nManufacturing \t\nMining- _ _.\t\nTransportation \t\nTrade \t\n,; Dominion Bureau of Statistics.\n7 Bareau of Economics and Statistics.\nTHE RESEARCH DIVISION.\nOccupational Survey of Public School Students.\nIn collaboration with the Department of Education and with the co-operation of\nSchool Boards and teachers throughout the Province, the Bureau of Economics and\nStatistics has conducted an annual occupational survey of students leaving Grades\nVII. to XIII., inclusive, since 1938. The objective of the survey has been to ascertain\nthe probable number leaving school, their reasons for leaving school, and the nature of\nthe occupations or special training which the students would seek thereafter.\nFinal tabulation has revealed that 4,386 students were registered in the 1941 June\nsurvey. Of this number, 1,955 students were uncertain whether they would or would\nnot return to the public school system in September. The remainder, 2,431 students,\nwere definite in stating that they would not return. Students who knew definitely in\nJune that they would be returning to school in September did not complete the\nquestionnaire.\nThe principal reasons given for leaving school, as shown in the 1941 survey, have\nbeen compared with similar figures for 1939 and 1940 in the following table:\u2014\nTable 2.\nPrincipal Reason.\nNumber of Students.\nPercentage.\n1939.\n1940.\n1941.\n1939.\n1\n1940.\n1\n1941.\nWish to seek employment \t\n1,728\n846\n18\n849\n325\n21\n23\n20\n144\n1,873\n1,075\n23\n716\n275\n36\n35\n.31\n130\n2.214\n1,165\n16\n608\n202\n11\n22\n16\n132\n43.5\n21.3\n0.4\n21.4\n8.2\n0.5\n0.6\n0.5\n3.6\n44.7\n25.7 |\n0.6\n17.1\n6.5\n0.8 !.\n0.8 ;\n0.7 [\n3.1\n50.5\nUnable to continue for financial reasons \t\n13.8\n0 5\nTotals .\t\n3.974\n4,194\n4,386\n100.0\n100.0 DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nM 11\nJust how many students actually entered the labour market is, of course, not\ndefinitely known. Excluding those students intending to seek special training, those\nleaving the Province, the invalid, and those required to assist at home, we might\nreasonably suppose that approximately 2,700 students sought employment in the Provincial labour market during 1939 and 1940, as compared with approximately 3,000\nstudents in 1941. In spite of the obvious difficulties confronting students asked to\nstate the occupations they intended to seek after leaving school, 3,210 students\nattempted to answer this question in the 1941 survey.* Of this group, 447 boys and\n207 girls reported that they had been assured of an opportunity to obtain employment\nin their stated occupations. The remaining 1,220 boys and 1,336 girls reported that\nthey had no assurance of employment in the occupations indicated. It is probably true\nto say, therefore, that the particular occupations shown by the students were, in many\ncases, merely indicative. For that reason the occupations have been consolidated into\nlarger industrial groups which, it is thought, provide a better picture of the actual\nsituation. In Table 3 the occupations have been consolidated in this way.\nTable 3.\u2014Occupations sought by Students leaving School, June, 1941.\nBoys.\nGirls.\nIndustry.\nTotal.\nDefinitely\nleaving.\nUncertain.\nTotal.\nDefinitely\nleaving.\nUncertain.\n131\n14\n42\n18\n328\n8\n98\n74\n2\n41\n1\n506\n271\n108\n8\n11\n108\n13\n391\n61\n9\n14\n10\n157\n6\n55\n40\n2\n24\n......\n286\n149\n56\n4\n\u00ab\n71\n7\n148\n70\n5\n28\n8\n171\n2\n43\n34\n17\n1\n220\n122\n52\n4\n5\n37\n6\n243\n3\n63\n2\n46\n203\n704\n26\n5\n147\n526\n522\n1\n37\n1\n26\n117\n506\n18\n5\n63\n420\n248\n2\n\t\nMining, quarrying, etc.\t\nManufacturing \t\nElectric light and power \t\n26\n......\n1\nTransportation and communication\n20\nCommercial \t\n86\nService \u2014 ...\nPublic administration \t\n198\n8\nPersonal service\t\n84\n106\n274\nTotal, all occupations\t\n1,667\n819\n848\n1,543\n936\n607\n* Of the remaining 1,176 students, 1,165 students reported that they intended to take special traini\nether students reported that they were leaving British Columbia.\nand the\nTo indicate in more precise terms the type of employment sought by these students,\nwe have listed (in order of magnitude) the principal occupations sought, in Tables 4\nand 5. The leading occupations, in the case of the girls, included 526 students seeking\noffice-work as stenographers, typists, clerks, and book-keepers; 201 students seeking\nemployment as saleswomen in the retail trade; another group of. 88 students reported\ntheir intention to seek work as domestic helpers. In the case of the boys, 256 students\nreported their intention to join various branches of air, navy, and army service, 131\nstudents were seeking employment as farm and garden helpers, 124 students were\nseeking work as machinists, and 123 students indicated their intention to seek office-\nwork. M 12\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nTable 4-\u2014Principal Occupations sought by Girls.\nPrincipal Occupations.\nTotal.\nAssured of an\nOpportunity.\nNot assured of\nan Opportunity.\nStenographers, typists, and secretaries .\nSaleswomen (retail) \t\nClerks, in office or bank -\nDomestic servants or child's nurse-\u2014\t\nTelephone operators _\t\nWaitress \t\nDressmakers' and tailors' apprentices ...\nHairdresser \t\nCannery workers, fruit and vegetable...\nJournalist, junior \t\nDruggist, junior.. _\t\nOther occupations \t\nOccupations not specified \t\nTotals.\n370\n201\n156\n88\n46\n36\n26\n15\n5\n62\n522\n31\n44\n27\n30\n14\n14\n6\n3\n4\n2\n25\n7\n157\n129\n58\n32\n22\n20\n12\n4\n8\n3\n37\n515\n1,336\nTable 5.\u2014Principal Occupations reported by Boys.\nPrincipal Occupations.\nTotal.\nAssured of an\nOpportunity.\nNot assured of\nan Opportunity.\n150\n131\n124\n123\n81\n55\n42\n33\n33\n30\n29\n26\n25\n25\n22\n20\n19\n18\n16\n15\n13\n13\n13\n12\n12\n\u2022 196\n391\n48\n62\n25\n41\n17\n13\n15\n18\n12\n3\n10\n14\n6\n8\n6\n6\n2\n5\n10\n6\n6\n6\n6\n6\n2\n85\n9\n102\n69\nMachinists' apprentice and mechanics (N.E.S.) _ - _ \t\n99\n82\nSailors and tradesmen, R.C. Naval Service ,\t\n64\n42\n27\n15\n21\n27\n19\n\u2022 12\n17\n16\n14\n17\n13\n6\nLabourers _ _ \t\n7\n6\n111\n382\nTotals - -- \t\n1,667\n447\n1,220\nThe number of students leaving the public school system, arranged according to\ngrades, has been shown in Table 6. Although the largest number of students is shown\nemerging from Grade XII., there is a significant outflow from Grades VIII., IX.,. X.,\nand XI. The table shows that more boys than girls were expecting to leave from\nGrades VII., VIII., and IX.; 28.8 per cent, of the boys and 19.9 per cent, of the girls\nwere reported in these grades. This situation has been noticed in earlier surveys, and\nrepresents, apparently, a general tendency. DEPARTMENT OP TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nM 13\nTable 6.\u2014Students leaving the Public School System at June 30th, 1941,\narranged by Grades.\nGrade\nTotal Students.\nStudents definitely\nLEAVING.\nStudents NOT\ndefinitely leaving.\nTotal.\nBoys.\nGirls.\nTotal.\nBoys.\nGirls.\nTotal.\nBoys.\nGirls.\nVII \u2014 \t\n113\n478\n456\n437\n404\n1,987\n395\n116\n63\n263\n234\n215\n175\n823\n154\n12\nPer\nCent.\n3.25\n13.56\n12.07\n11.08\n9.03\n42.45\n7.94\n0.62\n50\n215\n222\n222\n229\n1,164\n241\n104\nPer\nCent.\n2.04\n8.79\n9.07\n9.07\n9.35\n47.59\n9.85\n4.24\n50\n202\n164\n165\n135\n1,376\n29\n109\n73\n66\n44\n525\n21\n95\n91\n99\n91\n851\n185\n72\n63\n276\n292\n272\n269\n1\n34 ] 29\nVIII \t\n154 1 122\nIX \t\nX\t\n161 | 131\n149 j 123\nXI.\n131 138\nXII\t\n611\n298 1 313\nXIII\t\n260\n75\n135 | 79 ] 56\n79 | 7\n37 5 32\nTotals\t\n4,386\n1,939 | 100.00\n1\n2,447\n100.00\n2,431 [ 928\n1\n1,503\n1,955 ! 1,011 | 944\n1 1\nIn Table 7 a distribution according to age-groups has been provided. It is shown\nthat of the 4,386 students reporting in the survey, 2,826 students were between 16 and\n18 years of age. Similarly, 508 students, or 10.5 per cent., are shown in the 13-15\nage-group. With the exception of eleven students who did not state their ages, the\nremaining 1,041 students are shown to be over 19 years of age.\nTable 7.\nTotal.\nStudents definitely\nleaving.\nStudents NOT\ndefinitely leaving.\nTotal.\nBoys.\nGirls.\nTotal.\nBoys.\nGirls.\nTotal.\nBoys.\nGirls.\n13-15 years \u2014 \t\n16-18 years .\".\t\n508\n2,826\n1,004\n37\n11\n265\n1,193\n449\n23\n9\n243\n1,633\n555\n14\n2\n198\n1,504\n97\n543\n101\n961\n310\n1,322\n288\n30\n5\n168\n650\n168\n20\n5\n142\n672\n19-21 years \t\n22 years and over.\u2014. \t\n716\n7\n6\n281 | 435\n3 | 4\n4 ' 2\n120\n10\nAll ages \t\n4,386\n1,939\n2.447\n2,431 928 | 1,503\n! !\n1,955\n1,011 j 944\n1\nThe Trade of British Columbia.\nAt the request of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, External Trade Branch, the\nBureau has complied with war-time regulations and has suspended publication of the\nregular annual reports on the trade of British Columbia with foreign countries and\nwith other Canadian Provinces. As soon as circumstances are again favourable, the\nBureau will resume publication of this report which will, in the meantime, be kept up\nto date.\nThe agreement between this Bureau and the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, concluded in the fall of 1938, has continued in force. - Under this arrangement, a monthly\ncoded statement has been sent regularly to the Bureau from Ottawa, showing in detail\nthe importation and exportation of every commodity, regularly listed in the Federal\ntrade reports, moving through customs ports in British Columbia. With the aid of\nleading retail and wholesale firms and various governmental agencies, the Bureau also\ndevelops an annual estimate of the inter-provincial trade in order to provide a picture\nof the total Provincial trade. A summary of foreign and interprovincial trade for\nthe years 1936-40 follows:\u2014 Table 8.\u2014The Trade of British Columbia (excluding Gold) with other Canadian\nProvinces, the British Commonivealth, and all Foreign Countries, 1936-40.\nCountry or Province.\nImports into\nBritish Columbia.\nExports from\nBritish Columbia\nbut\nexcluding Gold.\nEstimated Total\nTrade\n(excluding Gold).\nOther Canadian Provinces\u2014\n1936 -'--\n$71,231,961\n77,153,440\n66,361,743\n72,966,783\n83,405,229\n15,038,814\n18,669,989\n18,628,470\n17,290,094\n18,742,514\n20,888,661\n22,271,603\n19,926,329\n40,318,115\n43,894,774\n107,159,436\n\u25a0118,095,032\n104,916,542\n130,574,992\n146,042,517\n$20,936,525\n22,673,602\n21,293,022\n22,149,065\n25,224,792\n44,769,638\n55,905,816\n47,569,696\n57,555,493\n67,649,671\n45,301,133\n62,165,656\n45,094,011\n84,449,427\n56,686,933\n111,007,296\n140,745,074\n113,956,729\n134,153,985\n149,561,396\n$92,168,486\n1937 \t\n99,827,042\n1938 .. .... -\t\n87,654,765\n1939 \t\n95,115,848\n1940 . 1 \t\n108,630,021\nBritish Empire (excluding Canada) \u2014\n1936 -\t\n59,808,452\n1937 .... \t\n1938 - \t\n74,575,805\n66,198,166\n1939\n7.4,845,587\n1940 _ -..:\t\n86,392,185\nForeign countries\u2014\n1936 \t\n66,189,794\n1937 \u2022\t\n84,437,259\n1938 .... \t\n65,020,340\n1939 \u2014 - \t\n94,767,542\n1940 \u25a0-..:. .... \t\nTotals\u2014\n1936 . -\t\n100,581.707\n218,166,732\n1937 -\t\n258,840,106\n1938\t\n218,873,271\n1939 \t\n264,728,977\n1940 ...... \t\n295,603,913\nFigures for 1939 have been revised since publication of the last annual report.\nThe Cost of Living in British Columbia.\nSince 1936, the Bureau has compiled an index of food prices in fifty-two cities,\ntowns, and villages for the private use of the Provincial Department of Labour. In\n1939, this food index was supplemented by a new monthly full cost-of-living index,\nwhich included clothing, rentals, fuel, and other essential household items in the four\nCoast cities of Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria, and Nanaimo. Under arrangements sponsored by the Provincial Department of Labour, this full cost-of-living index\nwas used as a cost-of-living barometer by a number of British Columbia Coast firms\nuntil the Dominion War-time Wages and Cost-of-living Bonus Order made the use of\nthe all-Canada index, prepared by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, mandatory\nthroughout Canada.\nThe food index measures the change in prices as they occur in the case of forty-six\nselected food items, forming a scientifically tested budget. At the suggestion of the\nlate Provincial Health Officer, Dr. H. E. Young, the food budget adopted was modelled\non the plan of the Sub-committee on Nutrition, British Commonwealth Scientific Conference, Ottawa, 1936; this represented the latest information available when the food\nbudget was created in 1936. The budget contains sufficient quantities of staple foods\nto maintain, in good health for one month, a family of five; of which two are adults,\none an infant\u20146 months to 1 year old, one a child\u20146 years to 10 years old, and one a\nchild\u201411 years to 13 years old.\nThe monthly full cost-of-living index, prepared for the Coast area, covers approximately 64 per cent, of the expenditures made by an average British Columbia family\nin receipt of an income between $1,200 and $1,400 a year.* The index is made up as\nfollows : Per Cent.\nFood 44.05\nRent 25.25\nClothing : 14.93\nFuel : 5.37\nFurniture .. 2.59\n* Based on a survey conducted by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Vancouver, in 1938. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nM 15\nPer Cent.\nKitchen equipment ... 2.39\nElectricity . 2.13\nTextiles, household 1.99\nWater , 1.30\nTotal\n100.00\nTable 9.\u2014The Cost of Living in Canada and in British Columbia.\nFor comparative purposes only, the Dominion and Provincial cost-of-living indexes\nhave been translated to the same base period, 1936 = 100.*\nCaution.\u2014These indexes do not measure the difference in the actual dollar cost\nof living between British Columbia and Canada as a whole. They show only the extent\nto which the cost of living in British Columbia, or in Canada, has varied from the\naverage cost of living in that area during 1936.\nFull Cost-of-living Index.\nFood Index.\nCanada.*\nBritish\nColumbia\nCoast Area.t\nCanada.*\nBritish\nColumbia. $\n1939\u2014\nFirst\nof Month.\n102.75\n102.75\n105.50\n105.81\n105.81\n105.81\n105.81\n106.63\n106.63\n106.93\n106.93\n107.65\n107.95\n108.46\n14)9.07\n109.89\n110.09\n110.40\n110.30\n110.30\n110.70\n111.52\n112.64\n114.07\n115.90\n116.92\n117.74\n118.55\n118.04\n117.64\n117.94\n118.14\nFifteenth\nof Month.\n99.27\n104.18\n104.80\n104.03\n103.94\n104.45\n104.66\n105.45\n105.18\n105.38\n106.48\n106.79\n107.02\n107.84\n108.58\n108.79\n108.66\n109.33\n110.21\n111.38\n111.57\n113.79\n114.08\n115.83\n116.89\n118.11\n119.74\n118.52\n118.33\n119.40\n120.23\nFirst\nof Month.\n101.53\n101.64\n108.69\n109.51\n107.06\n106.85\n106.85\n107.16\n107.16\n106.75\n106.13\n107.67\n107.77\n107.77\n108.49\n111.15\n111.55\n112.17\n111.25\n111.45\n112.58\n112.17\n115.03\n119.22\n124.03\n126.07\n125.97\n128.22\n126.58\n125.05\n125.87\n126.48\nFifteenth\nof Month.\n94.48\n104.38\n104.74\n101.51\n1940\u2014\n100.43\n100.97\n101.22\n102.53\n101.77\n101.51\nJuly ....... \t\n103.47\n103.84\n103.33\n104.92\nNovember..\u2014 \u25a0 \u2014. \t\n106.30\n107.39\n1941\u2014\n107.03\n107.93\n109.02\n111.42\n111.81\n116.09\nJuly ...... ,'\u2022\u201e.\n117.07\n120.55\n121.10\n121.24\nNovember \t\n123.93\n121.57\n1942\u2014\n120.99\n122.55\nMarch ..._ \t\n123.71\n* The Dominion Bureau of Statistics index is actually compiled on the basis of 1935-39 = 100. We have translated these figures into terms of 1936 = 100 for comparative purposes only. See the Dominion Bureau of Statistics\n\" Prices and Price Indexes \" for actual figures used.\nf Compiled bv the Bureau of Economics and Statistics for four Coast cities of Vancouver, New Westminster,\nNanaimo, and Victoria.\nt Compiled by the Bureau of Economics and Statistics for fifty-two centres in the Province. M 16\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThe Tourist Trade of British Columbia.\nIn the spring of 1941, at the request of the Government Travel Bureau, this Bureau\nundertook the task of compiling a reasonably accurate statistical summary of the Provincial tourist trade. During the 1941 tourist season a systematic study was made of\nthe automobile tourist traffic. The Province was divided into seven tourist divisions,\nand motorists passing through from one zone to the next, between June 1st and September 30th, were tabulated at strategic car-counting stations.* In this way a comprehensive statistical record of the automobile traffic was obtained.\nTo evaluate these statistics, the Bureau sought the co-operation of the Internal\nTrade Branch, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, which collects a statement of approximate expenditures from nearly every outgoing United States tourist and each incoming\ntourist. Pending the receipt of this information, the Bureau developed arbitrary estimates of average expenditure for each tourist zone and prepared a preliminary estimate\nof the total value of this traffic. The results obtained in this arbitrary calculation were\nas follows:\u2014\nTable 10.\u2014Estimated Total Expenditures of Visiting Automobile Tourists in\nBritish Columbia, 1941.\n(Assumed Three Persons per Automobile.)\nUnited States Tourists.\nCanadian Tourists,\nfrom other\nProvinces.\nMinimum Budget.\nMedium Budget.\nLiberal Budget.\nMinimum Budget.\n$267,000\n484,000\n2,450,000\n463,000\n50,000\n286,000\n$295,650\n500,000\n2,900,000\n552,000\n54,000\n308,350\n$355,000\n610,000\n3,322,000\n661,000\n69,000\n313,000\n$166,000\n115,000\n337,000\n108,000\n9,000\n65,000\nZone 2, Okanagan-Kamloops\nZone 3, Lower Fraser\t\nZone 5\u2014\nCentral B.C.\nUpper Fraser :\t\nTotals \t\n$4i000,000 $4,600,000\n$5,330,000 $800,000\n* A full description of the plan followed will be found in the 1941 Annual Report, pages 19 and 20.\nFrom the data subsequently furnished by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics it\nwas learned that in the case of the visiting United States auto tourists the medium\nbudget gave the most accurate results. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics has advised\nthat visiting United States auto tourists, leaving from customs ports in the Province,\nreported they had spent $4,654,000 in Canada. No similar information could be\nobtained, of course, to corroborate the estimates of the purely Canadian expenditures,\nsince the interprovincial tourist traffic is not subject to tabulation.\nWhile relatively successful in tabulating the automobile traffic, the Bureau has not\nbeen able to obtain a significant measure of the interprovincial railway tourist travel.\nBoth Canadian transcontinental railways were requested to provide information which\nwould help the Bureau to prepare a reasonably accurate estimate of this travel, and\nboth railways stated their inability to assist the Province at this time.\nThrough the courtesy of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, however, the Bureau\nhas been able to secure tentative information concerning the international rail, bus,\nsteamship, as well as automobile tourist traffic. From this material, as well as from\nthe Bureau's own study, the figures in Table 11 have been derived. In general, it is\nconsidered that these results reflect a moderate position. 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T.\n_\u00a7 t3 \"a\nrfi QJ >\nfi\n0\ntt\n\u25a0o > S \u00a3 B \u00a3\n2 \u00a3 \u00a3 cs * i\nO \u25a0 HJ ** O 0\na. hj .m cj oq Sh _e\nVI\n\u25a0m q cs n t- ja\n- 3 cS 0 3 GJ hj\n3 cS o 3 cu +_.\n3 < Ph pq m \n>\n>\na)\nfi\nO\no\ntt\n0\nCD\ns \u25a0a .\"\nx 3 o o\nH .S M Z M 18 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nAutomobile tourists from nearly every state of the United States visit British\nColumbia during the tourist season. A graphic illustration of this movement during\n1941 has been presented in the map, Chart A.\nINDUSTRIAL SURVEY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThis industrial survey was inaugurated at the request of the Honourable John\nHart, Premier and Minister of Finance, just before the outbreak of war in 1939.\nAlthough the possibility of attracting refugee capital, which was the reason underlying\nthe survey at the beginning, became rather remote after the commencement of hostilities, the survey, in view of its obvious basic importance, has been continued as a\npermanent project.\nFor many years persistent and capable efforts have been put forth by those departments of the Provincial Government concerned directly with the natural resources to\nencourage the establishment of new industries in this Province. The assistance has\ntaken many forms, ranging from the release of general information to positive acts of\nco-operation with producers anxious to locate their establishments in British Columbia.\nIn the process a large bibliography has accumulated throughout the various branches\nof the Government. Consequently, when plans for the present survey were being\nprepared, it was considered that a study which intentionally or accidentally duplicated\nthe work that had already been done in this direction would be a distinct waste of effort.\nTo eliminate the possibility of duplication and to assist in the planning and execution of\nthis project, the present Interdepartmental Committee was invited to serve' as an\nadvisory body.\nAfter a departmental steering committee had analysed the project, it was decided\nto delegate the initial preparatory work to the Bureau of Economics and Statistics.\nWhen the Bureau had sufficient material ready, a meeting of the Interdepartmental\nCommittee was called early in 1940 to consider the first progress report. Subsequently,\nthe matter was referred back to the Department of Trade and Industry for continuance.\nSince that time, work on this project in the Bureau of Economics and Statistics has\nbeen of necessity irregular. But, in spite of the prolonged and frequent interruptions\nwhich have disturbed earlier arrangements, the Bureau has carried on a modified programme and during the year presented its second progress report.\nOutline of the Work carried on by the Bureau of Economics and\nStatistics.\nIn requesting the Department of Trade and Industry to undertake an industrial\nsurvey, the Minister of Finance recommended that particular attention should be\ndirected to the following seven topics:\u2014\n(1.) (a.) What basic raw materials are known to be available in commercial\nquantities in this Province?\n(6.) To what extent are these materials being utilized at the present\ntime?\n(c.) In what form is this utilization taking place?\n(d.) Is further fabrication possible or likely to be profitable?\n(2.) (a.) What competitive areas exist from the standpoint of possession of\nraw materials?\n(6.) Is this competition actual or potential?\n(3.) (a.) What markets are available to the products resulting from such industrial expansion?\n(6.) Is there an established demand, or would such demand have to be\ncreated ?\n(4.) (a.) What protection would such industries have for the British-Columbia market by means of freight rates from Eastern Canada\ncompetitors ?\n(&.) What protection would such industries have for the Canadian\nmarket by means of tariff from foreign competition?\n(5.) Would importation of ..skilled labourers or technicians be necessary on\nany large scale? Eh\nH\no\neo\no\nOT\nH\nH\n<1\nH\n02\nQ\nSh\nH\nS\nP\nS3\n3\nEh\nS\nO\nBi\nSh\n\nfl\nCQ\nHJ\nSh\nc3\n0Q\no\n\u2022r.\n>\nfl\n.5?\n02\nSh\n'53\nsh\n03\nO\no\nrt\nby\nt-t\nO\n53\nSh\n!h\nO\nCU\n N N H\n. O) H \u201e \u00ab\" \u00abi M\nO N DD Q HI H ^\nM a . g o t* m\nS. HIS,\n\u00ab! Z S H\ntC \u2022\u00ab# \u2022>* IO\nSO t- 00 W\nt- W IO w\n< H H H\ntS \u00a3\n3 C Oi\nO TJ\n>! \u00a3 fi\n1 gs\nC T3\n0 C\nO fi\nc-ooot-ooot-io\nrtrtrt!^CQa_^jtc_i\nOOW^MH(DO\n(OMffllSIHHQO\nO.tOL'.'t'TTj'C.M\ne\u00ab\ns\nto\ns\na\ns\n_\u25a0\n63\n>>\na>\nOT\n01\ns\n. -\n.ti & M c\nfl T C\nO Jh .fi\na .fll \u25a0a\nrt cS ___;\n\u00a3 G g\nw eu . cj fi n >\nfi 5 ot o 2 o i\n'El fl 'ii. +* fi ** r__\nba-fi%o-\"t_>ti\n6J)-5=iScSCc3-S\n_]&hC|Q\u00a3hSh\u00a3\nM CO t- o o\n00 iO rH o t-\noo \u00a9 cd cs i-h i\n\u25a0A N ca o\n(N \u00bb0 \u00ab* t-\nCO O O i-H\ntO lO IO -rT M 22 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nPROSPECTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SUGAR-BEET\nINDUSTRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThe introduction of sugar rationing, as a result of war-time exigencies, has once\nagain focused attention upon the fact that British Columbia is dependent upon foreign\nsources for its cane-sugar requirements. It is natural, therefore, that at such a time\nthe merits of the sugar-beet industry would appear to best advantage. The establishment of a sugar-beet industry in the Province of British Columbia has often been mooted\nin the past and, in spite of the lack of success that has attended these efforts, it will\nprobably continue to attract serious attention at various times in the future.\nIn order that the Interdepartmental Industrial Survey Committee might have a\nconvenient source of unbiassed information at their disposal, the Bureau has undertaken to study and to summarize in a brief way some of the economic factors that have\nmilitated thus far against the successful establishment of this industry in British\nColumbia. A report on this subject will be completed about June, 1942.\nCO-OPERATION WITH THE POST-WAR REHABILITATION\nCOUNCIL.\nShortly after their appointment in the spring of 1942, the Post-war Rehabilitation\nCouncil requested the full-time assistance of the Bureau. In order to provide the\nCouncil with technical advice in their organization stage the services of the director,\nMr. G. Neil Perry, were made available on a part-time consulting basis, and the services\nof members of the Research and other Divisions of the Bureau arranged on a request\nbasis. These arrangements have worked thus far very satisfactorily. As the work of\nthe Post-war Rehabilitation Council progresses, it is anticipated that the services of the\nBureau of Economics and Statistics will be called upon increasingly to provide basic\ninformation and to undertake economic analyses in various fields.\nOTHER REPORTS.\nIn addition to the projects outlined previously, the Bureau has prepared numerous\nspecial reports and memoranda for officials of the Provincial Government. A supplement to the British Columbia Trade Index, published in 1941, was prepared and released\nearly in 1942. Special information has been prepared, also, in response to written\ninquiries from corporations and from private individuals on a wide range of subjects.\nTHE LABOUR STATISTICS DIVISION.\nIn accordance with an agreement concluded in 1938 between the Provincial Department of Labour and the Bureau of Economics and Statistics, the Labour Division of\nthis Bureau conducted and compiled the 1941 statistical survey of wage-earners employed in British Columbia trades and industries. Detailed statistical information on\nthis subject may be found in the annual report of the Department of Labour for the\ncalendar year 1941. Work in this division is primarily concerned with the statistical\nrequirements of the Department of Labour and its various administrative bodies.\nUnder the pressure of other war-time work the Employment Division of the\nDominion Bureau of Statistics has found it impossible to provide regional employment\nindexes. At the present time the Dominion Bureau of Statistics prepares an employment index for the Province as a whole. Under the arrangement negotiated with the\nEmployment Division originally in 1938, and subsequently confirmed in 1941, it is\nexpected that ultimately indexes will be made available on a regional plan.\nThe study of labour turnover, inaugurated in 1938, has been continued. In\nresponse to requests from industry, a simplified form has been prepared for use in the\n1942 and subsequent annual labour returns. Satisfactory results have already been\nobtained but, until the survey has had the benefit of several years' experience, the study\nwill be carried on on a research basis. When the data have been thoroughly tested,\nit is intended that regular reports on this question should be published annually. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. M 23\nTHE MINING AND METALLURGICAL STATISTICS DIVISION.\nIn accordance with an agreement concluded in 1938 between the Provincial Department of Mines, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, and the Bureau of Economics and\nStatistics, the Mining and Metallurgical Division conducted\" and compiled the 1940\nannual statistical survey of the mining industry. Detailed statistical information on\nthis subject may be found in the annual report of the Minister of Mines for the\ncalendar year 1941.\nThe work of this Division during the year has been largely concerned with the\npreparation of statistical material for the Department of Mines and its various administrative bodies.\nTHE MECHANICAL TABULATION BRANCH.\nThe rapid preparation of large-scale statistical surveys and reports depends frequently upon the use of tabulation machinery. The Mechanical Tabulating Division,\nutilizing punch-card equipment, is responsible for this phase of work in the Bureau.\nOperated as a service department, it has continued to accept custom work from other\nProvincial Departments in addition to statistical work arising within the Bureau. The\nDivision is operated on a straight-cost basis, and each Department has been assessed\nin proportion to the number of machine-hours required in the performance of its contract. The large volume of work made possible by this arrangement has permitted\nefficient machine operations.\nThe Bureau has been approached by representatives of Yarrows, Limited, Esquimalt, and of the Dominion Treasury, in connection with an accounting problem that has\narisen as a result of the large war-time work of that firm. The Department has tentatively agreed to accept machine-work from this firm on a straight-cost basis if circumstances later show this course to. be imperative.\nREPORT OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT\nTRAVEL BUREAU.\nThe remarkable advantages of British Columbia for development of the tourist\nindustry, coupled with continuing effect of the advertising, publicity, and promotional\nefforts- of the British Columbia Government Travel Bureau which cover wide range,\nenabled further expansion of \u2022 this industry during the past year, notwithstanding\ndeterring effect of handicaps imposed to' increasing extent occasioned by conditions\nimposed owing to the war. In consequence of changing conditions the work of the\nBureau was beset with many problems involving energetic effort to cope with them;\nand despite varied difficulties, with aid of local and other travel promotion bureaus,\ntransportation and other interests, affording. support and co-operation the tourist\nindustry, which has now become an important factor in the economic welfare of the\nProvince, maintained its progress.\nBritish Columbia is richly endowed with the special category of resources, the\nexploitation and exportation of which, coupled with the fact that markets with many\nmillions of potential visitors are accessible, enables development of an important tourist\nindustry. The British Columbia Government Travel Bureau, using methods and\ntechnique which experience has shown to be essential, has become an efficient sales\npromotion branch to provide clientele for the industry; and with steady expansion of\nits activities now carries out wide range of promotional efforts which have been\neffective in extending development.\nThe tourist business, like any big business seeking customers in volume, requires\nthat its sales promotion be based upon advertising and publicity to make the resources\nas widely known as possible to potential visitors. Display advertising was inserted in\nfourteen leading United States magazines reaching 50,312,090 paid subscribers; seven\nmotor magazines circulating to 1,303,400; and thirty-seven newspapers carrying total\nof 34,166,363 messages to paid subscribers\u2014a total circulation of over 85,000,000\nmessages which, with recirculation, reached a far greater audience. Also advertisements were used in seventeen Canadian publications with 11,000,000 subscribers, and M 24 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\ntwenty-five billboards beside Pacific Coast highways provided outdoor advertising. To\ntake advantage of current conditions advertising for winter travel was also carried in\nthe Canadian publications. The Vancouver Tourist Bureau co-operated by arranging\nits advertising schedule to cover other publications than those used by the Bureau; and\nthe Game Commission assisted by using advertisements addressed to hunters and fishermen in four sporting magazines. The Victoria and Vancouver bureaus also supplemented the advertising by contribution to the Evergreen Playground Association's\ncampaign in combination with Seattle and Tacoma.. The Bureau also obtained advantage from advertising of the Canadian Travel Bureau and the railway companies. It\nhad been planned to initiate the advertising campaign, as in former years, by co-operating with the Washington and Oregon bureaus to use full four-colour pages in the\nNational Geographic and Collier's magazines, but failure of the Washington bureau to\nreceive its appropriation in sufficient time prevented this plan being carried out.\nThe advertising was supported by an organized publicity plan including many\nfeatures. In addition to wide range of material prepared and distributed directly by\nthe Bureau the Gilliam Syndicate, under contract, produced from material furnished by\nthe Bureau and distributed feature layouts weekly for eight weeks to a thousand newspapers. Window displays and radio broadcasts were arranged with co-operation of a\nnational magazine. A display at the annual outing show of the Automobile Club of\nSouthern California which attracted 300,000 persons, attended by the Commissioner and\nTravel Director, was productive of large number of inquiries and much actual travel.\nThe close co-operation of this influential motoring organization, especially in aiding\ndistribution of literature and directing travel was a valuable aid.\nAttractive window and desk posters, designed and lithographed in five colours,\nwere used effectively, being widely displayed by transportation offices, travel bureaus,\nand other organizations. Photographs and motion pictures were used successfully.\nThe Bureau's photographic service was extended, further equipped, and special quarters\nwere provided to furnish a studio and projection-room, and aid storage and servicing of\nthe library which was considerably extended. A number of good pictures were produced by the Bureau.\nUnder contract a theatrical motion picture, \"Beautiful British Columbia,\" produced\nin 1940 for the Bureau was released at the beginning of the year through Warner Bros,\nand Columbia Pictures, and has since been in continuous circulation, having been-shown\nin some thousands of theatres. In 1941 another theatrical picture, \" Evergreen Play-\nland,\" featuring sports and pastimes, was produced and released through Twentieth\nCentury-Fox company. A 16-mm. reduction of the Beautiful British Columbia film\nwas added to the Bureau's library, together with several other notable additions\u2014\n\" North of the Border,\" \" Vancouver Island,\" and others. The Vancouver Island\npicture produced by the Bureau has been highly commended.\nThe publicity features, further extended during the year, now embrace most of the\nmethods available to this phase of work and utilize varied range of material. Literature, an essential factor, providing most economic and most efficient means for satisfying inquirers, to follow up advertising, and extend publicity, is a feature of the\nBureau's work which has won commendation. In addition to a series of essential\nbooklets, compiled by the Bureau, well illustrated and conforming to the highest degree\nof printing technique, dealing generally and specifically with the attractions and facilities, a number of folders, circulars, and informative bulletins are prepared and are\nwidely distributed.\nField-work has been carried out energetically. The Travel Director, travelling\nby the Bureau's motor-car, equipped with motion-picture projection apparatus and stock\nof films, literature and publicity material, has been kept in the field during the travel\nseason to engage in the major markets in effect as a travelling salesman for the tourist\ntrade. This phase of work has been effective, especially in extending publicity, organizing distribution of literature, disseminating information, and directing travel; also\nin widening the scope of the co-operative contacts which materially aid the Bureau's\nwork. In addition to field-work in the Pacific States the Travel Director also engaged\nin eastern Canada to promote winter travel. Valuable co-operation is provided by numerous organizations: by newspapers,\npublicity and advertising agencies, radio, motor, transportation, travel bureau, oil company, film producers, hotel, and other interests. Valuable contacts have been built up,\nand to maintain these connections the Commissioner visited centres of the Pacific States\nto confer and consult with various officials. Valuable results accrue. A close accord\nhas been made with many publishers, editors, advertising managers, and others who\nfreely publicize the travel opportunities of the Province and co-operate in many ways.\nUnder contract with the Bureau the services of the \" Ask Mr. Foster \" Service,\nwith offices in many centres of the continent, were used to distribute literature, disseminate information, and direct traved; and also a rack distribution service to further\ndistribution of the Bureau's folders.\nIn support of its exterior propaganda the Bureau had, in addition to the aid of the\nCanadian Travel Bureau, the co-operation of the Washington and Oregon State bureaus,\nAll Year Club of Southern California, Californians Incorporated, Redwood Empire\nAssociation, Evergreen Playground Association, and other travel bureaus; also leading\nmotoring and other organizations. It associated as a member unit of the Pacific Northwest Tourist Association and had benefit of its work, including displays at outing\nshows, contact work, and organization of a tour of travel editors whose itinerary\nincluded a visit to British Columbia.\nEffective co-operation was maintained with the Vancouver, Victoria, and other\nregional tourist bureaus. Efforts to influence development of local bureaus were continued, and some progress has been made along this line. In addition to seeking to\nmake the attractions of their areas better known local bureaus, while in most cases\nunable to support an advertising or publicity programme on any scale\u2014they have the\nadvantage of the Bureau's advertising and publicity\u2014can aid much in development of\nthe tourist industry, primarily for local advantage but also benefiting the industry in\ngeneral, by carrying out a range of receptive, regulatory, and improvement duties.\nDevelopment of local bureaus is not so easy as might be imagined, considering that\nthe value of tourist travel to a community is now generally recognized. The bureaus\nnow operating have performed excellent work for their regions; but the role of the\nlocal bm-eau and its requirements is a matter for further study. It is difficult for them\nto raise adequate funds, and as successful operation of a local bureau requires much\nwork, initiative, and often self-sacrificing public service, development is slow. Sound\norganization, looking to eventual establishment of a chain of regional bureaus cohered\ninto homogeneous Provincial body co-operating with the central bureau and with each\nunit functioning within its proper sphere will require some measure of supervision and\nregulation; and it may be desirable that the initiation of a local bureau should be made\nsubject to the sanction of the Minister and that regulations be made to define the\npowers and scope of local bureaus. Otherwise it will be difficult, if possible, to bring\nabout such cohesion as will best serve the regional interests and those of the industry in\ngeneral.\nThe Bureau's activities have included the marking of historic sites and places of\ngeographical or other interest, and a number of markers have been erected. It cooperated in the establishment of Thunderbird Park, opened in May, 1941, in Victoria\nas an open air museum with an array of totems, native houses, and other features of\nnative art. This has proven to be a notable attraction to visitors.\nIn co-operation with the Bureau of Economics and Statistics plans were made to\nsecure improved statistical data relative to the tourist trade. Stations were established which made counts of motor traffic entering via Alberta for five months, and an\ninteresting survey was made based upon material secured by the Bureau from replies\nreceived in answer to follow-up letters. Toward close of each season follow-up letters\nare addressed to a large number of selected inquirers asking if they have visited the\nProvince; if not, whether they wish further information; and visitors are asked to\nstate numbers in their parties, length of stay, expenditure, and remarks. Replies\nrepresenting 1,148 persons from thirty-six States and 191 from other Provinces, though\nforming a small sampling, provided an assay indicating to some extent the value of the M 26\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nbusiness. An interesting detailed survey was based upon this information by the\nBureau of Economics and Statistics.\nThe careful and sympathetic handling of inquiries has been freely commented upon\nin letters to the Bureau from visitors; and those engaged in connection with the tourist\nindustry\u2014transportation, resort, and other interests\u2014have warmly commended the\nwork of the Bureau and appreciated its co-operation. The Bureau acts as a clearinghouse for the literature of many organizations, resorts, stopping-places, transportation,\nand other interests catering to tourist travel.\nWide range of information and documentation has been assembled; and, in addition to fostering tourist travel, the Bureau also engages as an information bureau and\nto publicize the resources and opportunities of the Province in general, notably to\nattract.residents. It has had considerable success in this respect. Many persons with\nsubstantial incomes have come from other lands to reside in the Province following\ncorrespondence, often prolonged, with the Bureau.\nInquiries dealt with in 1941 totalled 46,693\u201432,895 travel inquiries and 12,798\ngeneral; 624,971 pieces of literature were distributed. Approximately half of the\ninquiries were directed to the Bureau ; others were received from varied sources. The\ninquiries, as to sources, compared for the past three years were as follows:\u2014\n1939.\n1940.\n1941.\n15,223\n5,003\n1,056\n6,938\n1,430\n16,641\n5,096\n1,93;\n7,415\n1,577\n1,866\n34,527\n17,190\n51,717 \u25a0\n702,810\n16,408\n\" Ask Mr. Foster \" \t\nGame Commission \t\nCanadian Travel Bureau \u2014 \t\n5,155\n2,039\n6,797\n1,339\n1,157\n29,650\n11,473\n41,123\n253,942\n32,895\n12,798\nTotals \t\n45,693\n624,971\nThe Bureau's activities, as indicated by the preceding review of features of its\nwork, cover wide range. Much documentation has to be assembled, revised, catalogued,\nand made accessible relative to the attractions, facilities, equipment, and varied appurtenant matters; as to available markets, travel trends, media for advertising and\npublicity, and miscellaneous other phases. Recording, filing, book-keeping, accounting,\ncompiling literature, preparing and placing literature, producing, servicing, and distributing photographs and motion pictures, circularization, bulletin services, packaging,\nmailing, and other duties involve a mass of office detail. The Bureau also engaged as\nan advertising agency for the advertising of all branches of the Government service.\nIn addition to valuable co-operation of city and other bureaus, transportation,\nmotoring, and other associations, government services of the Province, Dominion, and\nof other Provinces, and numerous other agencies at home and abroad, the Bureau has\nthe advice and counsel of the British Columbia Tourist Council created four years ago\nby the Government as a non-executive study and advisory body. Since its formation\nthe Council has studied many phases relative to tourist travel and made various recommendations which have enabled the Bureau to improve its services. Among other\nrecommendations made the Council suggested that the Bureau engage in direct mail\naddressed to residents of the Los* Angeles area, and in accord with this recommendation\nthe Bureau procured mailing-lists and prepared and distributed an attractive mailing\npiece. Influencing of establishment of local bureaus, marking of historic sites, and\nvarious other phases relative to promotional activities and improvement of the attractions and equipment to cater to the trade were also recommended. Many executives of\norganizations interested in the tourist trade attended open meetings of the Council and\ncommended its activities as well as those of the Bureau. The Tourist Council is composed of thirteen members, seven representing branches of the Government service, six\nrepresenting local interests, and is made up as follows:\u2014 DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nM 27\nE. G. Rowebottom (Chairman). Deputy Minister, Trade and Industry.\nJ. Gordon Smith Commissioner, Government Travel Bureau.\nT. W. S. Parsons Commissioner, British Columbia Police.\nC. D. Orchard \u25a0. Chief Forester Department of Lands.\nArthur Dixon Chief Engineer, Department of Public Works.\nJohn V. Fisher Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of\nFinance.\nF. R. Butler Commissioner, Provincial Game Commission.\nElmer Johnston _... President, Vancouver Tourist Association.\nG. I. Warren Commissioner, Victoria and Island Publicity\nBureau.\nT. W. Brown Solicitor, Prince Rupert.\nSydney J. Smith Kamloops Board of Trade.\nJ. B. Spurrier Fish and Game Club, Kelowna.\nW. G. Lanskail Nelson Board of Trade.\nAbsence of complete information respecting many forms and classes which contribute measurably to aggregate value of the tourist trade render any exact computation of its value impossible. The only accurate data available are as to the numbers\nof motor-cars entering from the United States through border customs ports, records\nof which are kept by customs officials. During 1941 count was also made for five\nmonths of United States and Canadian cars entering across the Alberta border.\nThough these counts include major proportion of the motor-cars visiting the Province\nothers are to be added\u2014arrivals over the Alberta border of United States and Canadian\ncars during the other seven months, and Canadian cars entering by way of the United\nStates during the year. The visiting cars counted totalled 170,519, and it is estimated\nthat at least a further 10,500 arrived uncounted to increase the total to over 181,000.\nQuestionnaire replies received by the Bureau from parties, including 1,148 persons\nfrom the United States and 191 from other Provinces, indicated averages of 3.1 persons\nper party, 7.7 days' stay, $6.18 per diem, expenditure per person for the United States\nvisitors; 2.88 per party, 17.48 days' stay, $3.28 per diem expenditure per person for\nvisitors from other Provinces. Though this cannot be considered a sufficiently large\nsampling to enable accurate, or even closely approximate, evaluation of the motoring\ntravel, if this class of tourist travel could be valued on this basis, the totals, applied to\nthe motor-cars in their several classes, would be as follows:\u2014\nCars.\n. Persons.\nExpenditure.\n92,048\n5S.298\n6,559\n13,614\n3,500\n4,000\n3.000\n285,348\n180,723\n20,333\n39,208\n10,850\n11,520\n8,640\n$13,578,608\n1,675,305\n967,561\nU.S. cars, 48-hour, direct \t\n2,247,967\n516,308\n660,492\nCanadian cars via U.S., 12 mos. (estimated) \t\n495,369\nTotals ' \t\n181,019\n556,622\n$21,141,605\nProbably the U.S. cars arriving via Alberta would include many returning from\nRocky Mountain parks and resorts which would have shorter stay and assuming half\nof these remained three days only the expenditure would be $452,869 less or total\n$19,688,736 by the motoring class.\nRail travel can be approximated only, and conservative estimates, considered low\nby transportation officials, of 100,000 arrivals from the United States by rail, bus, and\nair, and 40,000 by like modes of travel from other Provinces, assessed on like average\nbases of stay and per diem expenditures would add over $7,000,000. Various other\nclasses, arrivals by steamship, including local, coastwise, ocean, and Alaska and other\nexcursion travel, together with the added values of some classes such as big-game\nhunters, yachting cruises, fishermen and others, with their numbers estimated on such M 28\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\ninformation as is available on basis of conservatively estimated expenditures would\nprobably make up a balance which would bring the aggregate amount circulated by\nvisitors to about $30,000,000. This is not inclusive of the expenditures of visitors for\ncommodities or for other purposes than ordinary travel expenditures; or of the value\nof the local travel by residents within the Province. It does not purport to be an exact,\nor even closely approximate statement, and is an estimate based upon such information\nas is available. If full information were available it is not improbable that the business\nwould be shown to be of greater value.\nA detailed survey based upon replies to questionnaires received by the Bureau\nwas made by the Bureau of Economics and Statistics. In the case of the visiting\nAmerican tourists who responded it was found that the unweighted average of $6.18\ndaily expenditure per person ranged from $7.38 in the Vancouver Island-Vancouver and\nvicinity circuit to $3.82 in the case of certain tourists travelling from the Coast to an\nInterior United States boundary-point. In the case of Canadian tourists the average\nof $3.28 showed range from $3.50 in the case of tourists traversing the Province to\n$2.10 for travellers in the eastern sections only. In view of the relatively small size\nof the sample the unweighted averages cannot be considered to represent an accurate\nbasis for estimation, especially when it is noted that approximately half of the United'\nStates visitors spent not over $5.26 per day\u2014which basis, if accepted, would reduce the\nexpenditures as computed by about 15 per cent. Consequently these averages can be\nconsidered with caution until further verification is received from the Dominion Bureau\nof Statistics, which has undertaken to compile a special statement of tourists' expenditures ; and this statement is not yet available.\nIn any event, it is obvious that the tourist trade of the Province is very valuable,\nand the circulation of tourist expenditures and their addition to the purchasing power\nhas wide range of benefit. Many detrimental factors affected travel in 1941, to\nincreasing extent in latter part of the year, due to conditions imposed as result of the\nwar. Notwithstanding adverse conditions, however, the traffic was well maintained\nin 1941 and hotel, resort, transportation, and other services catering to the trade mostly\nreported a satisfactory season. Surveys by the Bureau of resort business, in addition\nto much information, brought considerable commendation of the Bureau's work as a\nvaluable aid to their business.\nMotor travel in 1941 showed considerable increase in the 48-hour class and the\n60-day class was approximately equivalent in extent to that of the previous year.\nTotals of United States cars entering directly by customs ports by months during the\npast two years were:\u2014\n60-day.\n48-hr.'\n60-day.\nTotal.\nJanuary\t\nFebruary.\u2014\nMarch\t\nApril\t\nMay\t\nJune\t\nJuly \t\nAugust\t\nSeptember..\nOctober\t\nNovember...\nDecember...\nTotals .\n2,728\n2,431\n3,275\n3,694\n4.927\n4,689\n3,667\n3,640\n3.447\n4,741\n2.964\n2,852\n43,055\n3,642\n4,380\n5,686\n6,083\n9.790\n14,060\n11,223\n15,036\n7,584\n6,055\n4.124\n4,543\n92,206\n6,370\n6,811\n8,961\n9,777\n14,717\n18,749\n14,890\n18,676\n11,031\n10,796\n7,088\n7,395\n135,261\n4,553\n2,494\n2,998\n2,942\n4,959\n5,594\n7,551\n7,702\n6,166\n4,848\n5.153\n3,338\n58,298\n3,957\n4,697\n5,023\n5,808\n7,384\n9,414\n17,593\n18,253\n7,776\n4,737\n3,792\n3,603\n8,510\n7.191\n8,021\n8,750\n12,343\n15,008\n25,144\n25,955\n13,942\n9,585\n8 945\n6,941\n92.037 ! 150,335 DEPARTMENT OP TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nM 29\nEntries of United States cars, as reported by customs ports, during the calendar\nyears 1940 and 1941 were:\u2014\n1940.\n1941.\n48-hr.\n60-day.\nTotal.\n48-hr.\n60-day.\nTota).\n12,192\n4,999\n3,163\n2,874\n15\n50,699\n8,051\n3,968\n4,229\n103\n1\n8,258\n1,653\n62,891\n13,050\n7,131\n7,103\n118\n1\n8,258\n1,653\n32,015\n5,258\n2,090\n2,960\n6\n46,649\n7,820\n3,633\n4,895\n157\n2\n10,076\n1,616\n2\n4,693\n44\n1\n2,165\n1,332\n5,720\n685\n154\n966\n958\n474\n3\n3\n78.664\n13,078\n5,723\n7,855\n162\n2\n1\n10,077\n1,616\n2,221\n66\n111\n4,345\n3,845\n1,963\n1,878\n1,473'\n4,166\n24\n11\n2,178\n71\n4,482\n773\n\u2022 204\n1,343\n1,645\n419\n6,387\n90\n122\n6,523\n3,916\n6,445\n2,651\n1,677\n1,343\n1,645\n972\n2,209\n24\n5\n3,553\n2,015\n1,023\n1,776\n1,244\n249\n790\n517\n6,902\n68\n5,718\n3,347\n6,743\n2 461\n1,398\n1,215\n1,748\n553\n991\n3\n3,481\n3,481\n\t\n2,449\n114\n2.452\n114\nTotals \t\n-43,179\n92,278\n135,457\n58,298\n92,048\n\u25a0 150,346\nOrigins of the 60-day cars entering via customs ports in calendar years as shown\nby States were:\u2014\nState of Origin.\n1939.\n1940.\n1941.\nState of Origin.\n1939.\n1940.\n1941.\nWashington __\n79,526\n16,017\n6,506\n1,646\n916\n803\n615\n569\n565\n464\n417\n411\n396\n388 .\n337\n315\n295\n287\n255\n252\n213\n209\n202\n188\n178\n150\n64,507\n13,157\n6,058\n1,387\n813\n552\n415\n461\n279\n333\n350\n257\n227\n257\n225\n184\n202\n169\n111\n159\n143\n222\n174\n129\n85\n135\n59,709\n14,727\n6,288\n1,586\n801\n693\n437\n439\n445\n450\n394\n386\n312\n259\n301\n197\n234\n273\n179\n340\n145\n166\n186\n141\n148\n150\nNevada \t\n133\n129\n120\n111\n105\n87\n80\n79\n73\n73\n68\n58\n45\n43\n43\n37\n32\n25\n24\n24\n23\n19\n9\n302\n182\n88\n46\n57\n65\n39\n44\n32\n44\n65\n46\n44\n24\n19\n101\n42\n46\n18\n16\n21\n10\n12\n10\n206\n153\n100\n69\nIdaho \t\nDistrict of Columbia\n57\n98\nIllinois .. \u2014._\t\nVirginia\t\n38\n52\nNew York .\t\nKentucky \t\n52\n63\nMichigan ____\t\nUtah- -- \t\nConnecticut.. \t\nNew Mexico \u2014\nMaryland \t\nNorth Carolina \u2014\t\n89\n56\n56\nOhio \t\n'38\nKansas \t\nMissouri \u2014 \t\n25\n65\nAlabama \t\n21\n18\nIowa -\t\nOklahoma \t\nWisconsin ... , \t\nFlorida \t\nMaine \t\nNew Hampshire \t\n15\n16\n22\n19\nDelaware\t\nVermont \t\nOthers \t\nTotals \t\n17\n21\nMassachusetts \t\n239\n113,862\n92,278\n90,785 M 30\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThese figures, provided by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, show discrepancy of\n1,252 from the total of 92,037 cars (subsequently corrected to 92,048) otherwise shown\nas the total of 60-day cars.\nFrom the twenty-two States west of the Mississippi 158,922 United States motorcars with 60-day permits were reported entering Canada in 1941, or 15.13 per cent, of\nthe total from all forty-eight States. Of the entries from west of the Mississippi\n114,629 cars, or 72 per cent., entered by the four western Provinces; 86,851 or 54 per\ncent, by way of British Columbia ports, and considerable proportion of the balance\nsubsequently entered British Columbia via Alberta. From the twenty-seven States\neast of the Mississippi the traffic was preponderantly to the eastern Provinces\u201411,549\nof 1.15 per cent, entering by the western Provinces, 3,695 by British Columbia ports.\nOf the traffic from these eastern States, totalling 991,230 cars, 542,437 or 54.7 per cent,\ncame from two States\u2014New York and Michigan\u2014the bulk entering by Ontario. Of\nthe total travel from the States east of the Mississippi 701,548 cars entered by Ontario,\n220,074 by Quebec, 58,059 by the Maritimes, 3,695 by British Columbia, 3,943 by\nAlberta, 924 by Saskatchewan, and 2,987 by Manitoba.\nWashington, from which State 60,025 cars entered Canada, of which 59,709 or\nover 96 per cent, entered by British Columbia, ranked fourth among the forty-eight\nStates in the total volume reaching Canada; California held tenth place with 26,960,\nwith 14,727 or 54.6 per cent, entering by British Columbia; Oregon eighteenth place\nwith 7,527, of which 6,288 or 83.5 per cent, entered by British Columbia.\nBritish Columbia drew 80,724 cars entering directly, or 89.15 of the total entering\nthe Province, from the three Pacific Coast States, and considerable proportion of the\n4,222 cars entering the three other western Provinces from these States subsequently\nvisited British Columbia. From the eight Mountain States 3,761 cars entered the\nProvince directly, 5,642 came to Alberta, 1,626 to .Saskatchewan, 223 to Manitoba in the\nfirst instance with many later visiting this Province. From the eleven other States\nwest of the Mississippi the totals entering through the customs ports of the western\nProvinces were: British Columbia, 2,366; Alberta, 2,480; Saskatchewan, 3,160;\nManitoba, 10,435. As shown by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the entries of\n60-day cars by Provinces during 1941 were as follows:\u2014\nBritish\nColumbia\nSaskatchewan.\nQuebec.\nMaritimes.\nFrom. States West of the\nMississippi.\nWashington \t\nCalifornia\t\nMinnesota\t\nOregon \t\nMontana\t\nNorth Dakota\t\nIowa \t\nMissouri \t\nTexas \t\nKansas - _ \t\nIdaho \t\nNebraska \t\nOklahoma \t\nColorado \t\nSouth Dakota \t\nUtah .... \t\nLouisiana \t\nArizona \t\nArkansas \t\nWyoming \t\nNevada\t\nNew Mexico \t\nTotals -\t\n59,709\n14,727\n386\n6,288\n801\n100\n273\n301\n445\n259\n1,586\n197\n179\n437-\n98\n394\n63\n186\n65\n148\n153\n56\n86,851\n679\n2,136\n689\n293\n4,479\n201\n309\n291\n320\n176\n311\n192\n137\n224\n104\n309\n46\n82\n15\n163\n44\n30\n11,230\n177\n310\n573\n70\n1,504\n1,940\n212\n45\n36\n66\n36\n87\n37\n39\n147\n6\n13\n5\n4\n27\n107\n397\n4,205\n53\n103\n4,390\n579\n227\n117\n229\n27\n228\n122\n45\n279\n10\n29\n6\n20\n23\n4\n5\n11,205\n1,219\n8,335\n9,922\n741\n403\n552\n4,308\n4,539\n2,655\n1.621\n243\n1,330\n1,282\n818\n472\n362\n747\n349\n397\n147\n110\n153\n40,705\n101\n831\n271\n69\n85\n37\n178\n271\n336.\n120\n28\n69\n167\n107\n24\n24\n167\n39\n33\n22\n18\n15\n3,012\n224\n58\n13\n18\n8\n24\n52\n35\n21\n6\n15\n8\n9\n6\n5\n17\n6\n7\n. 4\n2\n5\n62,025\n26,960\n16,104\n7,527\n7,393\n7,228\n5,883\n5,726\n3,944\n2,492\n2,237\n2,118\n1,932\n1,679\n1.130\n1,110\n1,082\n673\n541\n534\n336\n268\n158,922 Entry op 60-day Cars by Provinces during 1941\u2014Continued.\nBritish\nColumbia.\nAlberta.\nSaskatchewan.\nManitoba.\nOntario.\nQuebec.\nMari-\ntimes.\nCanada.\nFrom States East of the\nMississippi.\n439\n490\n40\n144\n222,369\n62,169\n1,412\n1,940\n32,740\n4,034\n468\n289,685\n252,752\n69,580\n450\n397\n217\n637\n249,171\n312\n392\n62\n165\n66,280\n429\nMassachusetts \t\n141\n127\n12\n34\n12,031\n14,916\n60,001\nPennsylvania \t\n234\n241\n25\n65\n50,925\n7,076\n1,195\n59,761\nVermont -\t\n21\n5\n1\n4\n913\n55,302\n280\n56,526\n15\n7\n1\n16\n863\n10,099\n1,432\n28,882\n276\n39,883\n693\n1,153\n256\n1,011\n30,033\n34,854\n150\n162\n12\n43\n14,023\n9,530\n1,610\n2,475\n25,530\n21,878\n89\n82\n4\n16\n6,843\n12,369\nNew Hampshire \t\n16\n9\n2\n3\n1,076\n13,061\n1,051\n15,208\nIndiana _ \u2014\t\n166\n176\n50\n127\n13,202\n458\n68\n14,247\n340\n324\n165\n492\n9,104\n307\n60\n10,792\n22\n19\n7\n1.874\n6,145\n1.446\n1,087\n275\n9,154\n5,932\nMaryland \t\n56\n40\n9\n15\n4,091\n145\n79\n23\n58\n3,485\n1,001\n1,068\n292\n5,076\nDistrict of Columbia \t\n57\n46\n6\n26\n1,996\n199\n3,398\n38\n33\n6\n13\n2,274\n761\n158\n3,283\nKentucky _._ __\t\n52\n26\n6\n15\n2,698\n151\n30\n2.978\nWest Virginia \t\n19\n16\n2\n6\n2,283\n157\n29\n2,512\nGeorgia \t\n69\n31\n6\n12\n1.277\n279\n47\n1.721\nTennessee \t\n52\n42\n5\n14\n1.398\n157\n27\n1,695 \u25a0\nNorth Carolina \t\n38\n15\n6\n24\n1,173\n332\n41\n1,629\n17\n2\n2\n635\n365\n65\n1,086\nAlabama ,.,..,*, _\n21\n14\n0\n18\n683\n76\n15\n830\n25\n18\n9\n13\n6\n14\n550\n298\n\u25a0 195\n56\n39\n11\n824\nMississippi \u2014 \u25a0\t\n5\n415\nTotals \t\n3.695\n3.943\n924\n2,987\n701,548\n220,074\n58,059\n991,230\n90,546\n15,173\n6,267\n14,192\n742,253\n223,086\n58,635\n1,150,152\nBRITISH COLUMBIA OVERSEAS TOBACCO FUND.\nFollowing representations to the Government from Mr. W. A. McAdam, Agent-\nGeneral for British Columbia in London, this Department undertook in February, 1941,\nthe organization and operation of the British Columbia Overseas Tobacco Fund.\nThe work is carried on in conjunction with the office of the Agent-General in\nLondon, the cigarettes being shipped in bulk to that office, from which centre individual\nparcels are dispatched. The fund has been a distinct success and has proven a boon\nto British Columbia men serving in Britain, losses of individual parcels having been\ndrastically reduced. In addition, generous donations have been received from individuals and organizations which have provided hundreds of thousands of cigarettes\nfor general distribution at the discretion of the Agent-General in London. To date\nsome 25,000,000 cigarettes and 7,000 lb. of tobacco have been shipped to British\nColumbia House, London.\nIn operating the fund throughout the Province, the fund has been fortunate\nenough to have the co-operation of the Junior Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce, local branches of the Canadian Legion and B.P. Order of Elks, and various\nwomen's organizations, whilst in Vancouver the United Commercial Travellers of\nAmerica have taken charge for that city. The distribution of parcels in London is\ndone entirely by voluntary help, some fifty ladies giving freely of their time for this\npurpose. The fund is indebted to these ladies and to local organizations for their\ngenerous assistance in providing an exceptionally fine service which is genuinely appreciated by British Columbia men serving in Britain. VICTORIA, B.C. :\nPrinted by Charles F. 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